Cape Point Accommodation
Cape Point accommodation by the kind of day you plan: Cape Town if a tour collects you, Simon's Town and Boulders for the gate at opening, the Atlantic villages, Fish Hoek and Noordhoek, or a SANParks cottage inside the reserve.
If a tour is taking you to Cape Point, sleep in Cape Town, inside the pickup areas: the day tours collect you in and around the city, and Kenzi’s pickup list has no village south of Hout Bay. Stay down the peninsula only if you are driving yourself and want to be at the gate when it opens, or want the Boulders penguins on your doorstep. Then Simon’s Town is the base, about 25 km by road from the Cape Point lighthouse. The tour this site books is Kenzi Travel and Tours’ full day, US$44 per adult with pickup from 13 Cape Town areas (checked November 2026).
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On a tour: Cape Town, inside a pickup area
Why here: The day tours start and end at Cape Town hotels. Kenzi Travel and Tours collects from 13 areas: the V&A Waterfront, the City Centre, Gardens, Tamboerskloof, Woodstock, Observatory, Green Point, Sea Point, Clifton, Bantry Bay, Camps Bay, Bakoven and Hout Bay. Beyond Africa Safaris - Gray Line South Africa collects within 10 km of the city centre, and City Sightseeing South Africa from set stops, two of them in Sea Point.
Where: Sea Point is on Kenzi’s list and has two of City Sightseeing’s stops, so it works for the door-to-door days and the double-decker alike.
The catch: from the city centre it is about 64 km to the lighthouse by road, so the day is long however you go, and you see the peninsula from the van rather than waking up in it.
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At the gate when it opens: Simon’s Town
Why here: SANParks opens the Cape Point gate at 6am in the October-March season and at 7am from April to September (it says the times may change without notice), and Cape Point’s own site urges an early start, to watch the sun come up over False Bay. From Simon’s Town the lighthouse is about 25 km by road; Cape Point’s own directions simply carry on along the coastal road from the town to the park entrance.
Where: Cape Town Tourism’s neighbourhood guide, dated 4 February 2025, puts Simon’s Town 35 km from Cape Town and names two places to stay at Boulders Beach: Boulders Beach Hotel, a hotel with a cafe and curio shop at 14 Secluse Ave, near snorkelling, kayak tours and boat trips; and Tintswalo at Boulders Hotel, at 7 Gay Rd, with luxury rooms, fine dining and sweeping views.
The catch: Simon’s Town is not on the Kenzi pickup list, so this base is for a car, not a tour.
Penguins before breakfast: Boulders Beach
Why here: The Boulders penguin colony is less than 2 km by road from Simon’s Town’s centre, and SANParks opens its gate at 7:00 in December and January and at 8:00 for the rest of the year, closing between 17:00 and 19:30 by month. SANParks also warns that parking at Boulders is limited and asks visitors to arrive early in the peak summer months.
Where: The two hotels above are at Boulders Beach itself, so the colony is a walk rather than a drive and a search for a parking space.
The catch: Boulders is a separate SANParks section with its own fee: R282 for a non-South African adult and R138 for a child of 2 to 11 (1 November 2026 - 31 October 2027), on top of the Cape Point fee.
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The Atlantic side: Scarborough and Kommetjie
Why here: Cape Point’s directions from Cape Town by the Atlantic side run through Kommetjie, Soetwater, Witsand, Misty Cliffs and Scarborough before the park entrance. Scarborough is about 25 km by road from the lighthouse, Kommetjie about 33 km. City Sightseeing’s coach comes home this way.
Where: Search the two villages by name, and add Cape Town to Scarborough: on its own the name finds towns of the same name abroad.
The catch: None of the tours here lists a pickup in either village, so this is a base for a car.
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Between the two coasts: Fish Hoek and Noordhoek
Why here: Fish Hoek is on the False Bay coast, on the way to Simon’s Town and about 32 km by road from the lighthouse. Noordhoek sits at the southern end of Chapman’s Peak Drive, the toll road to Hout Bay, about 39 km by road from the lighthouse.
Where: Noordhoek suits a driver who wants Chapman’s Peak Drive on the doorstep; Fish Hoek one who wants to be on the False Bay road to Simon’s Town and Boulders.
The catch: From Noordhoek the drive to town over Chapman’s Peak is tolled: the road’s own tariff page shows R68 for a car, each direction, on its schedule from 1 July 2024.
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Inside the reserve: SANParks’s cottages
Cape Point’s own site lists three self-catering cottages inside the Cape of Good Hope section. Eland Cottage and Duiker Cottage each sleep six, with electricity, full kitchens and linen; a third, at the beach in the far south of the reserve, has a main cottage with three double rooms and an annex that sleeps six more, with solar lights and tank water. All three are booked through SANParks, not through a hotel search, and the visitor centre that handles them is Buffelsfontein (14 November 2026).
From Cape Town: Cape Point & Boulders Beach Full-Day Tour
Kenzi Travel and Tours: pickup in 13 areas, the Cape of Good Hope, the lighthouse, Boulders and Simon's Town in ten hours. Park entry at the gates.
See dates →Cape Point and Boulder's Penguins Full Day Tour
City Sightseeing South Africa's coach day, booked on Viator collects from set stops in Sea Point and the city, with two hours at Cape Point.
See it on Viator →Figures from the listings (GetYourGuide checked November 2026; Viator checked November 2026). Facts about each area from SANParks, capepoint.co.za, Cape Town Tourism and the listings’ pickup lists. We do not rate hotels: the hotel searches show live prices. Tour prices here are not a quote: the price for your date shows on the calendar before you pay.
Then the Cape Point Day
Kenzi Travel and Tours collects you from your hotel in 13 Cape Town areas; the calendar shows an 8:00 AM start. One adult can book; park entry is paid at the gates.
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